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Lutheran Community Services - By Steve Tindall
Editors: This information is prepared for church
newsletter editors, secretaries and pastors. Your help in getting the word out
is appreciated and will help LCS achieve its mission of “Sharing God’s
blessings by helping others in need.” Comments about timing or content are
welcome. Contact Steve Tindall
(stindall@lcsde.org). 302 654 8886.
Best
Ever Walk Run Results - $52,129.00!!!
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| 5....4...3...2...1.... GO! |
What an outstanding
Walk Run. The weather and crowd were wonderful; and the money raised surpassed
all previous records -- $52,129! The previous high was last year’s
$46,172. Why such good results? Because
of the excellent effort put forward by all 277 participants, combined with record-breaking
fundraising by some real pros. The person who raised the most was perennial
favorite Jan Hufnal, with $5,405, a record. The second place adult was James
Nichols who raised $3,000. Third was Fred Melton who raised $2,150. The best
story about fundraising, however, belongs to a youth fundraiser – Dan Luettgen
from Grace who raised $4,625 another record. Other youthful fund-raisers are Hope
Munson in second place with $422, followed by Rachel Ierien, who raised $370
for third place. But remember, the real winners are all the thousands of hungry
families that receive LCS food as a result of the funds raised at this event!
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St. Marks - Winner for the Most People and
Highest Percentage of their Congregation |
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Now for the
churches. Given the performances of Hufnal and Luettgen, Grace was an easy first
place in the fundraising department with $15, 378. St. Mark’s was second in that
race with $12,934. St. Mark’s with 70 participants was a shoo-in for winning
the largest turnout trophy. They also took home the trophy for having the
highest percentage of congregational participation with a hefty 13.78% participating.
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| DuPont came out in force and to Live United. |
The most exciting part of the event was the 2014 Youth Run
Against Hunger. Among the boys, first place was taken by Nathan Hawk who
finished the 5k in 21:11. He was followed by Dan Luettgen (23:35) and Ben Swift
(25:59). The first place girl finisher was Phoebe Swanson who handled the
course in 28:19. Second place among the girls was claimed by Megen Derrickson
who finished in 33:46 with Riley Keller close on her heels to take third in 33:47.
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| Thank You to All of the Volunteers who came out to help that day! |
Financial
Literacy Update
LCS refers all its
homelessness prevention clients to Clarifi, a nonprofit provider of financial
literacy training. Last year only about 10% of our clients were taking
advantage of this option. But virtually all need it, so LCS strengthened its
partnership with Clarifi and changed how the program was administered. The
result? So far in 2014, 78% of homeless prevention clients have had financial
literacy training under the program.
